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Last weekend 6 coed teams gathered in beautiful Grand Ledge, Michigan for 2 days of ultimate, disc golf, hot cider, euchre, song, and a heck of a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who attended, especially those of you that didn't bail on Sunday. Commentary follows results.

Ultimate Results:

  1. Blitzkrieg, Hope College
  2. Team Suck, Chicago
  3. Ultimayhem, East Lansing
  4. Viscous Coupling, Ann Arbor
  5. Better Living Through Chemistry, Chicago
  6. TBA, East Lansing

Finals: (note, all games were played to a hard cap - no adding points after the horn)

The finals was a pretty good game. It was close until we fell into a series of points where Team Suck averaged about 0.8 pass completions/point, and Hope went up 13-8 with like 15 or 20 minutes left. Team Suck then rallied (or took advantage of Hope's slump, depending on how you look at it) and tied it up 13-13 on the last point of regulation play. The final point was hard-fought and swilly with both teams squandering several scoring opportunities with bad throws and easy drops. Then Hope finally scored the winning goal on a great foot-dragging dive in the front corner of the endzone, frighteningly near the concrete basketball court. Final score: Hope 14, Team Suck 13.

The format for Sunday wasn't exactly clean because the number 1 seed didn't show up. [They did send an email this week appologizing and offering no excuses, by the way.] One quarterfinal featured Team Suck running away from Better Living Through Chemistry and avenging a Game-to-Go loss at fall regionals. The other quarterfinal was much closer with Ultimayhem and Viscous Coupling trading goals much of the way. VC had the disc with the chance to tie at the cap forcing a one-goal winner-take-all situaion, but twas not to be as Ultimayhem won by 2.

Blitzkrieg had been warming up for some time and was anxious to play but neither semi winner was interested in a bye to the finals so after some friendly discussion, Ultimayhem agreed to let Team Suck play the finals immediately based on Team Suck's pool play win over them the day before. Thanks to everyone for being so understanding in a difficult situaion!

Saturday's pool play

Each team played 4 games and had 2 byes, one of which was spent playing disc golf against the 1 remaining opponant. This format was necessitated by our lack of field space.

TBA (4-0) wasn't really challenged all day by anyone except Blitzkrieg, and even they succumed at the end. There was just too much nationals experience on that TBA team (think anyone ever bagged Sunday at Nationals?).

Blitzkrieg (3-1) was young and fast and had pretty good disc skills, especially their long throws. They hucked early and often in all their games, most often with good success. Many teams kept close for a period of time, but they always pulled away at the end and none of their games were close.

Team Suck (2-2) played well dispite this being February and the first tournament of the year for most of their players. They looked convincing in their two wins and equally convincing in their losses.

Ultimayhem (2-2) featured our hosts, the Hunters, formerly of Better Living Through Chemistry. They're the reason this whole weekend happened. Chicago misses them greatly. Thanks for a great weekend!

Viscous Coupling (1-3) is a team talking about 1999 nationals and looks like they may have the skills to get there. They have a lot of players and will take time to gel, but when they do, look out!

Better Living Through Chemistry (0-4) finished 12th (last) at 1998 Coed Nationals in Sarasota last fall so Hot Cider was a much better result (5th place) and all were very pleased. Thanks to all of you who picked up, you were a lot of fun and made the games closer.

In retrospect, a shotgun start for discgolf would've been desirable because that way everyone would've played the same number of holes. As it was, however, comparisons are nearly impossible (especially given lack of results turned in). Looking at the standings, however, I decided it wouldn't make a difference in seedings for Sunday anyway, so just forgot about it.

Saturday night's dinner at a local pasta place was truly a thing of beauty. "Lasagna, you're making me wait. I'm drooling all over the table" sung to the tune of Cecilia.

Saturday night's euchre tournament was won by BLTC's Chris Bogzevitz. Thanks to all 32 participants!

Hope we can talk the Hunters into hosting us again next year. We promise to bring more toilet paper and recycling bins!

Love you Sean and Lisa!

peace,

ted